[Zope-dev] Re: Product version number redundancy with version.txt and setup.py

[Wichert Akkerman]

Previously Hanno Schlichting wrote:
> Tim Hicks wrote:
> >Am I right in thinking that there is a duplication of information in 
> >having an eggified product's version number stored in setup.py and 
> >version.txt?
> 
> Having your setup.py read its version from version.txt is easy, if you 
> don't want to update two places.
> 
> I think the more interesting question is, why we need a persistent 
> registry of installed products and any information about them at all 
> anymore?

ZClasses

Wichert.

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